Ansel Adams’s photography had as instrumental impact in enlivening the beauty of nature to people as William Zorach played in salvaging American sculpture from Neoclassic tendencies that dominated the culture in the early 1900s. Both found their true voice in their individual mediums and both had an acute eye for natural beauty. Adams photographs became symbols of a natural and forever preserved America. He was able to invoke viewers with an emotional sense of purified nature sometimes stronger than the actual scenery. Adams portrayed his intense commitment to promoting his images as fine art and became straight photography’s most articulate and determined supporter. William Zorach, originally a painter, found his calling in sculpture. Specifically
